The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-11-09
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Men and Women Whose Names Are Mem
toned in the Newspapers of the Land.

Men and Women Whose Names Are Mem
toned in the Newspapers of the Land.
Andrew Carnegie says it is very ssTl.
GUS matter for any one to be truly called
the friend of the Prince of Wales, be-
cause many of his associates are not re-
spectacle.
Gladstone is firm believer in the good
of athletics, and his son, Herbert Glad
stone, is the president of National Phys
ical Recreation society that has recently
been organized in Liverpool.
Professor Huxley has been making of
late some inquiries into the phenomena
of Spiritualism, and has expressed de-
| sire to look still further into the matter.
| If the Spiritualists make a convert, or
even secure a verdict of suspense of
| Judgment, they will have scored their
heaviest triumph against the forces of
| scientific skepticism. Professor TyndaH
| is determined opponent, but Professors
| Crookes and Wallace are adherents.
Rear Admiral Worden, hero of the
Monitor and Merrimac fight, is living in
Washington. He is 20 years of age, but
looks younger. He has a full blonde
| beard and his hair is not as white as his
/ age would warrant. The wound he re-
ceived at the Monitor and Merrimac bat
tie not only impaired his sight, but has
left him always subject to severe head
| aches. He was retired from the navy in
! 1886 on full pay, and is thus in receipt
of $4,000 year.
Hinton r. Helper, who wrote a book
that fastened the American civil war, is
| considered a lunatic because he goes
| about advocating the construction of a
railway from the city of Mexico south
ward to the capital of the Argentine Re-
public, but his arguments and the an
swers to them are the same that were
used when Thomas H. Benton advocated
a transcontinental line in the United
States. Mr.. Helper anticipates events,
| that is all. He may not live to see
| through trains running from New York
to the Rio de la Plata, but they are as
certain as the movement of the stars, and
to doubt it is simply to assert that the
coming generation will not be as enter
| prising as this.
Boss" Alexander r. Shepherd, of
| Washington since the ovation rendered
him at the capital, has been a great deal
in New York city. He is a magnificent
specimen of physical manhood. He is
six feet tall, has great broad shoulders
and a well proportional anatomy through
out. If his strength were equal to his
looks he could easily knock out Sullivan.
| His face is clean shaven and indicates
firmness. He dresses elegantly and In
| the latest style. The high silk hat he
wears is as shiny and brightly polished as
| mirror, and his trousers are symphonies
both of color and form. The 'boss" goes
about armed with stenographer, The
recent reception to him by the citizens of
Washington was not big enough to have
a deleterious effect upon the boss usual
genial manner toward his friends and
mankind in general.
There is living in Chicago one very in
teresting lady, who is cosmopolitan in
her experiences, very intellectual and
artistic in her tastes, and who would be
an addition to any circle, literary or social,
but who really cultivates but few friends
and is little known This is Mrs. Gardin,
the daughter of Theodore Tilton. Such
leisure time as she has she spends in
painting, which she has studied for a
number of years in Germany and Italy.
Flowers are her favorite subjects, and she
1 LIleSt Will tIe SENTIMENT Oh q
woman and the cieverness of true artist.
Her life is busy one, filled with minor
household cares and the training of her
two children. She is childish in stature,
with mass of girlish black curls hang
ing down her back, generally knotted to-
gether with fresh ribbon. Her eyes
are large and expressive, and light up her
small face in manner peculiar to very
dark eyes. She is to be seen often about
the picture shops and studios, generally
leading her little daughter by the hand.
Her home is modest one in some re.
spects, but it is exceedingly interesting
and absolutely unique. Tables. rich with
Venetian carving, stand on the ingram
carpets. A few pictures from the hands
Of masters decorate the plainly papered
walls; between the swaying of the simple
muslin curtains are vases of antique
porcelain, and in the unpretentious book
cases are volumes of rare and quaint
bindings. An atmosphere of scholarliness
elevates the whole into something better
than luxury.